Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:30:06 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> To: Jason Evans <jasone@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall issues Message-ID: <20070410072507.D36917@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> In-Reply-To: <461AC6EC.6030401@freebsd.org> References: <461AC6EC.6030401@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Jason Evans wrote:
> I tried various methods for installing the March 2007 snapshot using PXE (no
> CD-ROM drive), but I ran into a combination of problems that made this
> seemingly impossible.
>
> 2) When booting with a serial console, the machine switches back to the vga
> console when sysinstall launches. The 6.2 snapshot has the same problem.
> Perhaps there is a bad interaction with pxeboot, but I'm not familiar enough
> with the boot process to know where to look.
yes, ran into something like that before. boot -h does not seem to do
the trick. But if you do
set console="comconsole"
at the loader prompt it should work.
I have no idea why that's the way it is. I spent half an hour looking
at the code and then a "timeout fired".
May I add another item?
3) in systinstall when one adds a user to a different partition like
/u1 with a home of /u1/home/bz that did not work.
--
Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT
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